inktober day ??: s/o to the guy on the train who noticed me trying to peep the cover of the book he was reading, kindly flipped it up to reveal Pride & Prejudice, and then went back to reading it.
the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen
these are the valentine’s day hours on the website of a flower shop not far from my apartment & i thought “8 am - ‘til the last rose” was really cute
Hair by mitsuki_jurk on Instagram.
Ignacio Cobot’s tarot
Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world. Read more here.
je suis struggling
The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)
This is an interactive web page showcasing the lives and artworks of Ukrainian female artists of the 1960s.
The site includes an interactive story game featuring mesmerizing graphics, in which the player, taking the role of the artist, must evade the secret police.
The site exhibits photographs from these women’s lives as well as their artworks, many of which can be seen directly referenced in the game’s design, especially the works of Lyubov Panchenko (see below).
Here are some more, by Halyna Zubchenko and Lyudmyla Semykina, respectively.
tea parties should be more common. let’s sit down and enjoy the afternoon with sum tea n lemon cookies. maybe wear pretty dresses or lovely suits or groovy overalls, yk? in the tea party, we r safe and loved. have a cookie.